README
Various html files used to be included in this directory but they were
beginning to bloat the size of the source tarball so they have been
removed in version 1.24 .
 
Here are the urls of the files that were previously here plus a brief
summary:
 
https://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg3_utils.html
- overview and examples of this package
 
https://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg_dd.html
- discussion and examples of the sg_dd utility which is a dd variant
(also discusses the sgm_dd, sgp_dd and sg_read utilities)
 
https://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg_ses.html
- discussion and examples of the sg_ses utility. SCSI Enclosure
Services (SES) devices may contain a lot of information,
structured in a non-trivial way.
 
https://sg.danny.cz/sg/sg_io.html
- discussion of Linux SG_IO ioctl (SCSI pass-through)
 
https://sg.danny.cz/sg/tools.html
- overview of around 25 storage and SCSI tools
 
Many of those pages are also found at: https://doug-gilbert.github.io/
 
 
There are two versions of sg_scan: one for Linux and the other for Windows.
They have different man pages: sg_scan.8.linux and sg_scan.8.win32 with
the Makefile logic (rule in Makefile.am) copying the appropriate one to
sg_scan.8 . sg_scan is not supported for other ports.
 
Syntax checking
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Use 'mandoc -W style {man_page} > /dev/null'
 
The: 'cannot parse date, using it verbatim: TH February 2019' warning
is ignored.
 
Douglas Gilbert
19th January 2023